
Auction Closed
June 30, 02:57 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
MIDDLE NIGER CIVIILZATION SEATED MALE FIGURE, MALI, 12TH - 14TH CENTURY
Terracotta
Height: 20 ½ in (52.1 cm)
Alain de Monbrison, Paris
Philippe Guimiot, Brussels, acquired from the above
Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired from the above on January 26, 1982
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara, January 30 - March 12, 2020
Bernard de Grunne, Djenné-jeno: 1000 Years of Terracotta Statuary in Mali, Brussels, 2014, n.p., pl. 168
Alisa LaGamma, ed., Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara, New York, 2020, p. 98, cat. no. 42